1946 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 7 – Adamo Didur, operatic bass, 77
  • January 10 – Harry Von Tilzer, songwriter, 73
  • January 18 – Lew Pollack, US composer, 50
  • February 2 – Eduard Bass, singer and cabaret director, 58
  • February 15 – Putney Dandridge, jazz musician, 44
  • February 20 – Hugh Allen, organist and choral conductor, 76
  • April 5 – Vincent Youmans, US composer, 47
  • May 25 – Patty Hill, co-writer of "Happy Birthday to You", 78
  • June 1 – Leo Slezak, operatic tenor, 72
  • July 14 – Riley Puckett, country musician, 52 (blood poisoning)
  • July 20 – Tricky Sam Nanton, trombonist, 42
  • August 8 - Maria Barrientos, coloratura soprano, 63
  • August 24 – Antonio Paoli, operatic tenor, 75
  • August 31 – Paul von Klenau, Danish composer and conductor, 63
  • September 3 – Moriz Rosenthal, pianist, 83
  • September 4 – Paul Lincke, composer, 79
  • September 16 – Mamie Smith, vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress, 63
  • October 9 - Enrica Clay Dillon, American opera singer, opera director, and voice teacher, 65
  • October 12 – Giuseppe Adami, opera librettist, 67
  • October 16 – Sir Granville Bantock, composer, 78
  • November 5 – Zygmunt Stojowski, composer and pianist, 76
  • November 14 – Manuel de Falla, composer, 69
  • December 6 – Maximilian Steinberg, composer and teacher, 63
  • December 28 – Carrie Jacobs-Bond, US songwriter, 84
  • December 30 – Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, 65
  • date unknown
    • Leandro Bisiach, violin maker
    • Teddy Brown, xylophone player

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